Nr WHITING BAY/ARDMORE: Flock of Tree Sparrows still present
in a farmyard.

TRAMORE BOATING LAKE: 2 Mediterranean Gulls.

Mon 29 Jan:

YOUGHAL area: 4-5 Fin Whales south of Capel Island (Co
Cork), present for almost a week - see Irish Whale & Dolphin Group website - with recent reports also from Bunmahon and Brownstown Head (Co Waterford) and Hook Head (Co Wexford). IWDG
would wlecome any further sightings.

Note: Sightings listed here are
reports, not necessarily authenticated records. * = species for which the Irish Rare Birds Committee currently requires substantiating descriptions or photographs. Records are regularly updated, and older records
added or amended where necessary . Many thanks to observers who
provided records above - any further records (current or older) would be appreciated.

Please email any sightings, or
text details of scarcer species to 0861701599; to report sightings of rarities to the national Birds of Ireland News Service(BINS), phone 01-8307364.